Re: [PATCH] ide: New libata driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> >> If you get a request for an odd length you should write an extra word
> >> containing the last byte and one other. See how the standard methods
> >> handle this.
> 
> > OK.
> 
>     I don't think you need to bother doing that with CF.

Look at it the other way around is the best thing to do given an odd
sized I/O (eg if a CF format ATAPI drive comes along) to crash the
machine.

> > Perhaps it would be better to fix the problem at the source.
> 
>     I don't think there's a problem there. The string versions of the 
> functions treat memory as a string of bytes.

Double checking the docs you are right. How dumb, but dumb or not that is
what it is specified to do.

> > Probably nothing.  I will try to sort it out.
> 
>     It's the need for the tasklet that seems doubtful to me...

I was wondering but assumed it was some kind of hardware feature where
the end of IRQ occurs too early to do some of the cleanup.